Posted by JimH on June 01, 2008 at 10:42:56:
For the last two days, I've been wearing out my feet and my brain trying to see everything there is to see at Book Expo America at the LA Convention Center (what a huge place). There are more than 2,000 companies here from all over globe showing off their products and services. And then there are the endless sessions: authors, publishers, editors, agents, publicity folks, marketeers, and manufacturers. It's impossible to see more than a fraction of them. Today is a breakfast buffet with entrées ranging from Ted Turner, author (with Bill Burke) of Call Me Ted (Grand Central), Azar Nafisi, author of Things I’ve Been Silent About: A Memoir of Family (Random House), and Dennis Lehane, author of The Given Day (William Morrow). Should be plenty to digest from that group.